Verse I.51

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.51

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दोषागन्तुकतायोगाद् गुणप्रकृतियोगतः
यथा पूर्वं तथा पश्चादविकारित्वधर्मता

doṣāgantukatāyogād guṇaprakṛtiyogataḥ
yathā pūrvaṃ tathā paścādavikāritvadharmatā

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

།ཉེས་པ་གློ་བུར་དང་ལྡན་དང་།
།ཡོན་ཏན་རང་བཞིན་ཉིད་ལྡན་ཕྱིར།
།ཇི་ལྟར་སྔར་བཞིན་ཕྱིས་དེ་བཞིན།
།འགྱུར་བ་མེད་པའི་ཆོས་ཉིད་དོ།

Dege, PHI, 113

Since it is adventitiously associated with flaws
And since it is naturally endowed with qualities,
Its true nature of being changeless
Is the same before as after.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 374

Vu le caractère adventice de ses défauts

Et le caractère naturel de ses qualités, Telle elle était, telle elle sera L’essence du réel est immuable.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

RGVV Commentary on Verse I.51

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[There follow] fourteen verses about (9) the topic of this tathāgata element’s being unchangeable by being afflicted or purified, despite being all-pervading throughout those three phases. The [following verse] is to be understood as the synopsis [that precedes] these [fourteen verses].

Since it is adventitiously associated with flaws

And since it is naturally endowed with qualities,

Its true nature of being changeless

Is the same before as after. I.51

{J42} Since [the basic element] is adventitiously associated with the two flaws of afflictions and proximate afflictions during its phase of being impure and during its phase of being both impure and pure ([taught] by twelve [verses] and by one verse, respectively) and since it is naturally endowed during its phase of being completely pure with the inconceivable buddha qualities that far surpass the sand grains in the river Gaṅgā [in number], are inseparable [from this basic element], and [can]not be realized as being divisible [from it] ([taught] by the fourteenth verse), it is explained that the tathāgata element has the true nature of being absolutely changeless before and later, just like the element of space.

etāsteva tisṛṣvavasthāsu tathāgatadhātoḥ sarvatragasyāpi tatsaṃkleśavyavadānābhyāmavikārārthamārabhya caturdaśa ślokāḥ/ ayaṃ ca teṣāṃ piṇḍārtho veditavyaḥ/

doṣāgantukatāyogād guṇaprakṛtiyogataḥ/

yathā pūrvaṃ tathā paścādavikāritvadharmatā//51//

dvādaśabhirekena ca ślokena yathākramamaśuddhāvasthāyāmaśuddhaśuddhāvasthāyāṃ ca kleśopakleśadoṣayorāgantukayogāṃccaturdaśamena ślokena suviśuddhāvasthāyāṃ gaṅgānadīvālukāvyativṛttairavinirbhāgairamuktaśiracintyairbuddhaguṇaiḥ prakṛtiyogādākāśadhātoriva paurvāparyeṇa tathāgatadhātoratyantāvikāradharmatā paridīpitā/

自此已下即依此三時明如來法性遍至一切處依染淨時不變不異有十五偈此等諸偈略說要義應知偈言

諸過客塵來 性功德相應 真法體不變 如本後亦爾 此偈明何義偈言

十一偈及二 次第不淨時 煩惱客塵過 第十四十五 於善淨時中 過恒沙佛法 不離脫思議 佛自性功德

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本際中間際 及以後際等

如來真如性 體不變不異

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

It is possessed of occasional defects

And of virtuous properties relating to its essence;

But in the initial and in the subsequent states

It remains the unalterable Absolute.

Takasaki (1966)

Being possessed of faults by occasion,

It is, however, endowed with virtues by nature;

Therefore it is of unchangeable character

In the beginning as well as afterwards.

Fuchs (2000)

Having faults that are adventitious

and qualities that are its nature,

it is afterwards the same as before.

This is dharmata ever unchanging.

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